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NSERC awards Discovery Grants funding to eight McGill Agricultural and Environmental Sciences projects
Published: 30 July 2024
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded 101 McGill research projects funding from its Discovery Grants competition for a total investment of $23.5 million, including $639,500 for eight projects submitted by researchers in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
The Discovery Grants support ongoing programs with long-term goals, recognizing the creativity and innovation that are at the heart of all research advances.
The funding was announced June 14 as part of a suite of investments in discovery and applied research totaling $693.8 million.
Projects funded in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
- Identification of environmental and genetic factors affecting the colonization of water systems by Legionella pneumophila (Grant holder: Sebastien Faucher)
- The mechanics of photosynthesis (Grant holder: Anja Geitmann)
- Tabletop scanning electron microscope for the study of biomaterials (Grant holder: Anja Geitmann)
- Novel chemical tracer approaches to advance global change ecology and ecotoxicology (Grant holder: Melissa McKinney)
- Single-cell sorting instrument to further microbiome insights (Grant holder: Jennifer Ronholm)
- Regulation of editosome proteins in trypanosome differentiation (Grant holder: Reza Salavati)
- Extracellular vesicles in helminth-host communication: negotiators using a molecular language (Grant holder: Lucienne Tritten)
- Biologically-assisted nutrient uptake model for agricultural crops (Grant holder: Joann Whalen)
For more details and a list of McGill’s Discovery Research Program recipients, consult the .